Cultivation of Immortals Begins with Drilling Wood To Make Fire

  Chapter 363 [On the black awning boat]

  Everyone was shocked.

   There was a moment of silence in the arena, and everyone stopped talking about it just now.

  Everyone turned their gazes to see the man in white who suddenly appeared and threw a lot of goods on the ground.

   But the team steward looked at the goods on the ground, walked up and bowed and said: "Thank you, hero, this is exactly the goods we lost."

  Fang Chang nodded and said, "That's good."

   "I don't know, how did the thief deal with it?" The team steward continued to ask.

   "Run away." Fang Chang said something perfunctory, but the team steward thanked him again, and reluctantly offered some money as a gift, Fang Chang had no choice but to say again: "No need."

   Then turned around and left.

  His feet were extremely fast, so people behind him could only see his gradually shrinking back, and then they talked and speculated endlessly, and it took a long time to disperse. Maybe there will be different versions of this matter in the future. I don't know if it is "the hero captures the fast-footed thief" or "the strong man shakes the mountain with three punches".

   These have nothing to do with Fang Chang, he has already slipped away.

  ………

  The further south you go, the warmer the weather becomes. After traveling for a hundred miles, the breeze blowing on your face feels warmer.

  Looking up and looking around, the treetops are indeed green.

  Due to the long hours and angles of sunshine, even though it is winter in the north, there are still people working in the fields here.

  Fang Chang has carefully observed that they are taking advantage of this season to put effort into tidying up the fields at home.

  This area is mostly paddy fields. Unlike the dry fields in the north, intensive cultivation requires more manpower, energy, and time. Of course, the field will reward people with equivalent results, and with a little more effort, more harvests can be guaranteed.

   In the words of an old farmer educating his own children, the fields never lie.

   Along the way, there are still many traces of military disasters, and there are still many unidentified families. It can be seen that this rich place has also suffered a lot. Fortunately, this area has been occupied by the rebel army, and many scholars were sent as officials, with some rebel soldiers, to try to govern one side and benefit one side.

  In this process, there will naturally be many mistakes and mistakes.

   But the overall situation is still positive, because the common people have bright eyes and can always tell who is really for their own good, so they are very tolerant. Some elders, often with many years of life experience, go up to meet and talk a few times, just to let them have more knowledge.

  At the same time, those who participated in the rebel army, their family members, also received payment and family letters from the army. Due to the strict military management, the deduction of military salaries among the rebels is very rare and very slight, and often as many as 90% can be obtained, which is the best in the world.

   People with extensive knowledge say that this is also one of the foundations for the invincibility of the rebel army.

  Further to the south, the water network becomes denser. There are more rivers than roads here, and the transportation on foot and by horse and horse is far less convenient than that on ferries.

  Fang Chang went to the countryside to do as the Romans did, found a small boat, paid a few pennies, and let him support himself to go south.

  The boatman is wearing a bamboo hat and lightly propping up the long boat, the small boat shuttles through the water, very light and fast.

   This kind of boat is the main means of transportation in this area. The hull is narrow and low, with a canopy made of bamboo strips on it, which is painted black for anti-corrosion. There is only a straw mat inside, and passengers often sit on the bow, looking ahead, talking and chatting with the boatman, and the journey passes in such a leisurely way.

   "The guest came from Jiangbei? That's really far away."

  The accent here is a bit soft compared to the Central Plains. Like the mountains and rivers here, people are generally handsome. Hearing the boatman's exclamation, Fang Chang smiled and said: "The Central Plains and Jiangnan are close together, and the distance from here to the north of the Jiangjiang River is only a few hundred miles away. This world is not too big, and it is a family."

  The boatman did not relax his hand holding the wormwood, and smiled at Fang Chang who was sitting on the bow:

  "Guests have traveled far and wide and seen a lot, so of course they feel that the world is very small. People like us who go boating every day, wander around here, and can't walk tens of miles every day, naturally feel that the world is vast and unimaginable."

   "To put it bluntly, it is still related to the distance and time of walking in all directions. If one day, ordinary people can travel around at ten times the current speed, then it is not too bad to say that the world will be ten times smaller."

  Fang Chang clapped his hands and laughed, and praised:

   "Haha, it's very reasonable. The boatman's words can be called true insight. How old are you this year?"

"Fifty to three." The boatman smiled, looked up at the sky and said, the gray beard on his chin swayed, "My grandson will soon be able to punting, but the new magistrate here , said to let children of his age know a few words as much as possible."

"I can't say whether this matter is good or bad, but the new magistrate is a kind-hearted person. It just so happens that the family is relatively well-off, so he sent him away. Now I can write the names of the whole family. My old Yang family, several generations Rendou University can't read half a word, and now he is about to produce a literate young man."

  Fang Chang turned his head and said:

   "Congratulations, boatman."

   "Hahaha, we are happy together." The boatman was in high spirits, and he asked Fang Chang: "Guest, are you going to the south? But it looks like you still want to take a tour nearby."

   "The boatman has good eyesight," Fang Chang said with a smile, "Is there any good place worth visiting this week?"

"That's not true, there are just some ordinary things around." The boatman kept holding on to the wormwood, and then shook his head after thinking for a while, "If there is a basis for a lively place, one is the prosperity of the city, and the other is the market not far in front. city."

  Fang Chang hummed, and continued to ask:

   "Then is there anything to say about the bustle of the prefectural city and the market?"

  Faced with this tricky question, the boatman was not afraid. He thought for a while and replied:

"Fucheng is naturally a good place. There are shops that are not nearby, skilled craftsmen that are not nearby, and food and drink that are not nearby. People from all over the world like to play. Although Fucheng It suffered from a military disaster, but luckily the imperial court attacked it quickly, and the old appearance was restored after a short period of recuperation. Now there is a school and a library opened there, and after the popularity is booming, there are many good places to go.”

"The front market is also quite famous in the surrounding area. It was originally a grass market at the time of my grandfather's grandfather. He bought some surplus grain, sold some fish and shrimp caught from the river, fished water chestnuts, and sold some The bamboo shoots dug, the game hunted, or the cloth woven by the family, and the soles of the shoes. There are only one or two yamen helpers, and they collect a few cents of tax money there.”

"As a result, one or two hundred years later, whenever there is a new gadget, people around still like to go to that market to sell it, because there are many people and people there, and it is the most suitable for doing business. Over time, this place has become a big place. If guests are interested in the place in Fucheng, they can go and have a look."

   Thank you, the scholar on the sixty-sixth floor, for the reward.

  (end of this chapter)